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# You: A Novel (1) (The You Series)

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Review: "You" is the reason I now fear everyone is a stalker. - "You" is one of the creepiest and best stories I’ve read in a long time. "You" is the story about you. You’re Guinevere Beck, but you just go by “Beck.” You’re an MFA student and a writer (sometimes, when you’re not busy re-watching Pitch Perfect). You stop into Joe Goldberg’s bookstore one day and he’s immediately attracted to you—as you are to him. He’s charming and always seems to know all the right things to say. He’s smart and savvy even though he never went to college. He reads all the best books, and he’s always in the right place at the right time. If only you weren’t so wrapped up in your on-again-off-again fling with that one awful guy, then maybe you could see that you’re perfect for Joe, and vice versa. Because Joe would never let you down. He sees you and only you—pretty much 24/7. Because what you don’t know is that Joe is watching you, gathering information about you, reading your e-mails, spying in your windows, and discovering everything he needs to know to prove to you that he’s your perfect man. And the more you see him, the more you start to believe that he is the one for you. But with Joe in your life, disaster seems to follow you everywhere, and you can’t help but start to wonder why. Appropriately written in the second person, "You" is told from Joe Goldberg’s perspective as he digs himself into Beck’s life. Even as early as chapter two, it starts to become clear how sick Joe is—how much deeper his obsession goes than a little Facebook stalking. He quickly settles into more than questionable maneuvers to work out where she is, what she’s doing, whom she’s contacting, and why. And whenever you think he’s reached his peak, there’s always shockingly more to come. And worse, as the reader, you almost want him to get away with it. There were a few plausibility issues in this book, some of which I won’t list to avoid spoiling parts of the plot, but what it amounts to is this: everything is all too convenient for Joe. For example, when he manages to steal Beck’s phone early in the novel so that he can read her messages and check her e-mail, Beck never deactivates the phone, so he can keep using it as long as he wants. And not only that—Beck just so happens to use e-mail as her primary mode of conversation between friends rather than texting, so Joe can always spy on her with ease. How helpful. I can think of four or five things along these lines over the course of the book that made me think, “Wow, the author couldn’t have thought of a more believable way around that?” I was torn on how to rate it because of these too-obvious escape routes, but overall, the novel’s can’t-stop-reading quality, well-written narrative, and fascinating character dynamics outweighed the obvious flaws. OVERALL RATING (within genre): 5/5 Stars TL;DR: If you can stomach it, "You" is a totally compelling and creepy stalker story that, in spite of a few technical flaws with the plot, will continue to haunt you for weeks to come. This and more reviews at http://anagiovinazzo.com.
Review: It's good and it's great and it's creepy and it's stalkerish and you should read it - Wow this book was really good and it got into my bones and it really reeled me in and now I am typing in compound compound sentences so great was its effect. Lol. I came to this book via the Netflix (via Lifetime) show. Late in season 1, I discovered the show was based on this book. To my very pleasant surprise, I discovered I own this book on my Kindle (gasp). Kindles are so noveau and fashion forward and snotty and snooty and books should be touched and caressed and creased and written in. Books transfer germs. Don't mind if I reminisce a moment. I bought this Kindle book when it came out. I don't remember doing so. I had only owned my Kindle for 1 month. How did I find it? This author had just written short stories before. My Kindle was VIRTUALLY BRAND NEW and I was mostly using a site to find free books at that time. I just don't know. But I own it and so I finished episode 9 and before watching the finale, I read this book. It is difficult and frankly much less fun reading the book AFTER seeing the show/movie. In fact, I hate it. Had I planned my life more carefully, I would've checked to see if there was a book. But how to do that? Bored one night, I just semi-randomly picked this show on Netflix. What am I supposed to do, research every show on Netflix to see if there's a book, and if so, read the book? How do I know whether the show will be any good? I already read a lot of books. Watching shows is my non-book veg out time. Can these worlds actually coexist? I need some ice cream. Well, once the genie is out of the bottle, you cannot put her back. Unless she is Barbara Eden. And even that is difficult. She puts herself back. When she wants. So I know what Joe looks and acts like and I know what Beck looks and act like and how can I enjoy this book with the MENTAL IMAGES ALREADY IN MY HEAD???? Developing mental images (after all, life is really just a series of visuals, words mean nothing without visuals) while reading a book is really what it's all about. And I couldn't do that because FREAKING NETFLIX ALREADY DID IT FOR ME. So as I began I was perturbed and not a little disturbed and somewhat consternated but thank god not constipated and on my merry way I went, though not merrily. The book is a bit choppy and things skip forward and you get a feel for that but I was not ready for that because the TV show seems more linear and connected. So my first thought was that I didn't like the book that much and THANK GOD FOR THE SHOW. But around 25% the book really dug its claws in and I began analyzing various things, like why did they change certain characters' names and races? Why does the show have a whole set of key characters (Joe's neighbors) that are not in the book? Why do TV writers feel the need to change so many things? I get that TV is different than books and some changes are helpful but anytime I compare a book and a show i ALWAYS see unnecessary TV changes. Alas, alas. Read the book. It's interesting and it's fascinating and it's not the greatest book ever written but it's pretty darn good and I gave it 4 stars and not many books get 5 stars from me. This is a very very long review for me but I broke out my laptop and I'm having fun, even if you're not. Get some ice cream. Normally I write reviews on my phone and the PRIMARY if not ONLY point of writing them is to create a record of the books I've read (which Alex Cross did I read last?) and to record a quick snapshot of how I felt about the book, for posterity, if not posteriors. Now that we have lovely Goodreads (whose reviews don't link to desertcart unless you write them ON YOUR KINDLE, even though desertcart owns Goodreads, shut down its discussion board and pushed us to Goodreads, GRRR), I don't need to write a review on desertcart to remember that I read a book. Goodreads does it for me and I like that very much. But I've been doing it this way for 5 years and i'm just going to keep on doing it. And now I'm copying and pasting my reviews to Goodreads since that is now where I manage my reading habits and what are our kids going to do with our digital products and our digital footprint when we die? All this becomes nothingness but who gets all the Kindle books? Should I include that in my will? And the URLs of all my online accounts and the related user IDs and passwords so they can stop all online subscriptions and get whatever music, books and other content I own??? Why does desertcart give us a small box to type reviews in? This box holds about 5 lines and it's not convenient and maybe desertcart is encouraging short reviews but it seems every desertcart box to type in is too small and in fact it seems that's a phenomenon across the whole WWW. Come on, when is Generation Z or whoever is in charge now going to RISE UP and MAKE TECHNOLOGY BETTER??? So many advances to be made. I liked the book. The end.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #22,806 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #295 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #367 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #679 in Suspense Thrillers |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 25,612 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "You" is the reason I now fear everyone is a stalker.
*by A***. on February 5, 2015*

"You" is one of the creepiest and best stories I’ve read in a long time. "You" is the story about you. You’re Guinevere Beck, but you just go by “Beck.” You’re an MFA student and a writer (sometimes, when you’re not busy re-watching Pitch Perfect). You stop into Joe Goldberg’s bookstore one day and he’s immediately attracted to you—as you are to him. He’s charming and always seems to know all the right things to say. He’s smart and savvy even though he never went to college. He reads all the best books, and he’s always in the right place at the right time. If only you weren’t so wrapped up in your on-again-off-again fling with that one awful guy, then maybe you could see that you’re perfect for Joe, and vice versa. Because Joe would never let you down. He sees you and only you—pretty much 24/7. Because what you don’t know is that Joe is watching you, gathering information about you, reading your e-mails, spying in your windows, and discovering everything he needs to know to prove to you that he’s your perfect man. And the more you see him, the more you start to believe that he is the one for you. But with Joe in your life, disaster seems to follow you everywhere, and you can’t help but start to wonder why. Appropriately written in the second person, "You" is told from Joe Goldberg’s perspective as he digs himself into Beck’s life. Even as early as chapter two, it starts to become clear how sick Joe is—how much deeper his obsession goes than a little Facebook stalking. He quickly settles into more than questionable maneuvers to work out where she is, what she’s doing, whom she’s contacting, and why. And whenever you think he’s reached his peak, there’s always shockingly more to come. And worse, as the reader, you almost want him to get away with it. There were a few plausibility issues in this book, some of which I won’t list to avoid spoiling parts of the plot, but what it amounts to is this: everything is all too convenient for Joe. For example, when he manages to steal Beck’s phone early in the novel so that he can read her messages and check her e-mail, Beck never deactivates the phone, so he can keep using it as long as he wants. And not only that—Beck just so happens to use e-mail as her primary mode of conversation between friends rather than texting, so Joe can always spy on her with ease. How helpful. I can think of four or five things along these lines over the course of the book that made me think, “Wow, the author couldn’t have thought of a more believable way around that?” I was torn on how to rate it because of these too-obvious escape routes, but overall, the novel’s can’t-stop-reading quality, well-written narrative, and fascinating character dynamics outweighed the obvious flaws. OVERALL RATING (within genre): 5/5 Stars TL;DR: If you can stomach it, "You" is a totally compelling and creepy stalker story that, in spite of a few technical flaws with the plot, will continue to haunt you for weeks to come. This and more reviews at http://anagiovinazzo.com.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's good and it's great and it's creepy and it's stalkerish and you should read it
*by K***R on January 19, 2019*

Wow this book was really good and it got into my bones and it really reeled me in and now I am typing in compound compound sentences so great was its effect. Lol. I came to this book via the Netflix (via Lifetime) show. Late in season 1, I discovered the show was based on this book. To my very pleasant surprise, I discovered I own this book on my Kindle (gasp). Kindles are so noveau and fashion forward and snotty and snooty and books should be touched and caressed and creased and written in. Books transfer germs. Don't mind if I reminisce a moment. I bought this Kindle book when it came out. I don't remember doing so. I had only owned my Kindle for 1 month. How did I find it? This author had just written short stories before. My Kindle was VIRTUALLY BRAND NEW and I was mostly using a site to find free books at that time. I just don't know. But I own it and so I finished episode 9 and before watching the finale, I read this book. It is difficult and frankly much less fun reading the book AFTER seeing the show/movie. In fact, I hate it. Had I planned my life more carefully, I would've checked to see if there was a book. But how to do that? Bored one night, I just semi-randomly picked this show on Netflix. What am I supposed to do, research every show on Netflix to see if there's a book, and if so, read the book? How do I know whether the show will be any good? I already read a lot of books. Watching shows is my non-book veg out time. Can these worlds actually coexist? I need some ice cream. Well, once the genie is out of the bottle, you cannot put her back. Unless she is Barbara Eden. And even that is difficult. She puts herself back. When she wants. So I know what Joe looks and acts like and I know what Beck looks and act like and how can I enjoy this book with the MENTAL IMAGES ALREADY IN MY HEAD???? Developing mental images (after all, life is really just a series of visuals, words mean nothing without visuals) while reading a book is really what it's all about. And I couldn't do that because FREAKING NETFLIX ALREADY DID IT FOR ME. So as I began I was perturbed and not a little disturbed and somewhat consternated but thank god not constipated and on my merry way I went, though not merrily. The book is a bit choppy and things skip forward and you get a feel for that but I was not ready for that because the TV show seems more linear and connected. So my first thought was that I didn't like the book that much and THANK GOD FOR THE SHOW. But around 25% the book really dug its claws in and I began analyzing various things, like why did they change certain characters' names and races? Why does the show have a whole set of key characters (Joe's neighbors) that are not in the book? Why do TV writers feel the need to change so many things? I get that TV is different than books and some changes are helpful but anytime I compare a book and a show i ALWAYS see unnecessary TV changes. Alas, alas. Read the book. It's interesting and it's fascinating and it's not the greatest book ever written but it's pretty darn good and I gave it 4 stars and not many books get 5 stars from me. This is a very very long review for me but I broke out my laptop and I'm having fun, even if you're not. Get some ice cream. Normally I write reviews on my phone and the PRIMARY if not ONLY point of writing them is to create a record of the books I've read (which Alex Cross did I read last?) and to record a quick snapshot of how I felt about the book, for posterity, if not posteriors. Now that we have lovely Goodreads (whose reviews don't link to Amazon unless you write them ON YOUR KINDLE, even though Amazon owns Goodreads, shut down its discussion board and pushed us to Goodreads, GRRR), I don't need to write a review on Amazon to remember that I read a book. Goodreads does it for me and I like that very much. But I've been doing it this way for 5 years and i'm just going to keep on doing it. And now I'm copying and pasting my reviews to Goodreads since that is now where I manage my reading habits and what are our kids going to do with our digital products and our digital footprint when we die? All this becomes nothingness but who gets all the Kindle books? Should I include that in my will? And the URLs of all my online accounts and the related user IDs and passwords so they can stop all online subscriptions and get whatever music, books and other content I own??? Why does Amazon give us a small box to type reviews in? This box holds about 5 lines and it's not convenient and maybe Amazon is encouraging short reviews but it seems every Amazon box to type in is too small and in fact it seems that's a phenomenon across the whole WWW. Come on, when is Generation Z or whoever is in charge now going to RISE UP and MAKE TECHNOLOGY BETTER??? So many advances to be made. I liked the book. The end.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must Read
*by C***S on November 11, 2016*

For all my reviews- come check out my blog Clues and Reviews [...] When aspiring writer, Becks, walks into a small neighbourhood bookstore, she falls deeply and madly in love with Joe, the operator of the bookstore. She cannot stop thinking about him and hopes that he will get in touch with her right away; find some way to connect with her. After all, Joe is smart, handsome and witty. Joe is also a stalker. This is how Joe imagined their meeting and it really doesn’t matter what Becks is thinking because Joe already has it in his mind that Becks will be his. And he will stop at nothing to have her…even if it means committing murder. You, the psychological thriller by Caroline Kepnes, is, hands down, one of the most delicious books I have read this year. Addicting and ominous, this novel tells the explicit tale of one man’s obsession and how he does anything to obtain it. I found myself savouring each page; to the point that I actually made myself put the book down and read something else so I could enjoy it longer. That takes some serious restraint people! On the cover, a series of words are used to describe this read: “unsettling”, “compelling”, “hypnotic and scary”. I’d have to say I agree with each of them. The novel opens with Becks walking into the bookstore where Joe works. She pays with her credit card and he googles her name from her card. Of course he does. After this, the story floats down a slippery slope as he accesses her social media accounts and then finds her address. I will not give any more details to how this story unfolds, because truly, it is something you have to read for yourself! The story is completely narrated by Joe. This was fascinating; through his narration, we become intimately acquainted with the mind of a stalker. From his initial moments of googling her name to watching her most private moments (from the street outside her window), we watch as Joe progresses from interest to full-blown stalker. We get to watch his mindset and see how he is able to justify his actions and his behaviours based on a smile, a look or an adjustment of clothes. From the first page, I was completely sucked in- and to be honest- I found myself oddly connected to Joe. Even though I knew that this plot was supposed to be disturbing, Kepnes writing kept me drawn in and had me feeling sympathetic towards him. Only some pretty stellar writing can have a perfectly sane girl feeling sorry for a creepy, obsessive, manipulative psychopath and his plight. Sorry Joe, it’s nothing personal. This novel, although sexually explicit, lacks all gore and typical horror tactics. What it does have is complete possibilities, and those, are more haunting. I loved that this novel was completely plausible. It very well could happen to anyone. You could smile at someone walking down the street, and the next thing you know, you could be potential prey. Someone could have access to your social media accounts and could be saving your pictures for their own perusal. Someone you completely trust could be living a completely double life. Now excuse me while I go search my fiancé’s room for locks of my hair… I highly recommend this one. It was fantastic. An absolute must read in my opinion. I cannot wait to read the second installment, Hidden Bodies, and hear more from Joe.

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